The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-13
NAVAL STORES sTArEMENr.
took on hand and on shipboard


Receipts same day last year. 430 1856
FINANcIAL-Money is i'll great demand, with
the supply ample.
Domestic Erohange--Easy. Banks and bank
ers are buying sight drafts at ID per cent dis
count and selling at Is per cent discount to par.
F'OI eigJt EccbGRqe--The market is dull but
steady. Commercial demand 81 81; sixty days,
81 ~; ninety days, S4'iA; francs Paris and
Havre, commercial, sixty days, IS %; Swiss,
S. 3S13: marks sixty days, 9il f.
SEcURITIEs-The market is lifeless, but partly
because the offerings are so light.
STOCKS AND RoNpS-Cify BOndS-Atlanta 6
per cent long date, l08 bid ITO asked: Atlanta
per cent, 11S bid. 12l asked Augusta = per
cent long date, 107 bid 10 asked; Augusta 6s
long date, 1903 BID, 40 assed; Columbus per
cent, 100 bid, 105 asked Macon per cent,
III bid, 112 asked; new Savannah per cent,
January coupons, 102 bid 1929 asked; new
Savannah per cent, February coupons, 1014
bid. 102l4 asked.
StGfe Bonds Georgia new 6s, 1889, l01 bid,
102 asked; Georgia new 416s, 105l5 bid, 1861
asked; Georgia per ent gold, quarterly cou-
pons. 10394 BID, 105 Asked Georgia Z per cent,
coupons January and July, maturity 1896, 40
bid 13l asked
Railroad Stocks-Central common ex-divi-
dend 1855 bid, 120 asked Augusta and Savannah
: per cent guaranteed, ex-dividend 1879 bid,
1872 asked; Georgia common, 1875 bid, 1875
asked; Southwestern Z per cent guaranteed,
ex-diyiidend l241s bid, i2516 asked; Central
per cent certificates, ex-ihterest 90 bid 100
asked; Atlanta aud West Point railroad stocS,
1o7 bid, 1909 asked; Atlanta and West Point 6
Per cent Certificates, ex-nterest 100 bid, 1O2
asked
Railroad Bo,,os-savannah, Florida and
Western Railway Company general mortgage 6
per cent interest, coupons October, Ill bid
liz asked; Atlantic and Gulf first mortgage
consolidated per cent, coupons January and
Central consolidated mortgage per cent
coupons January and July maturity 1898,
1l0M bid, III asked: Georgia railroad is, 1897,
l06 did, 108 asked; Mobile and Girard second
mortgage indorsed per cent, coupons January
and July maturity 1889, 1914 bid, 105 asked;
Montgomery and EufalIla first mortgage per
cent, Endorsed by Central railroad 10S bid
100 asked; Marietta and North Georgia first
mortgage, so years, 6 per cent, 1904 bid, 1918
asked; Charlotte Columbia ana Augusta first
mortgage, HOY bid, 1l1Is asked; Charlotte, Co
llInbia and Augusta second mort
gage, 1o5 bid llo% asked; West
ern Alabama second mortgage in
dorsed per cent, 1906 bid, 107 asked; South
Georgia and Florida Endorsed, 11s bid 30
asFed; South Georgia and Florida second
mortgage, ia bid, 1l6 asked; Augusta and
Knoxville first mortgage Z per cent, NE bid,
ll2Is asked; Gainesville, Jefferson and south,
ern first mortgage guaranteed, 115 bid, 116H
asked; Gainesville, jefferson and Southern not
guaranteed, 113 asked; Ocean Steamship
per cent bonds, guaranteed, by Central
jefferson and Southern second mortgage
guaranteed, 113 asked; Columbus and
Rome first mortgage bonds, Endorsed by Cen
trail railroad, 100 bid 107 asked; Columbus
and Western per cent guaranteed, 100 bid,
40 asked; City and Suburban railway first
mortgage per cent, 107 bid, los asked.
Bank Stocts-Nominal. Southern Bank OF
the State of Georgia, 1893 bid, 202 asked; Mer-
chants National Bank, 100 bid, 1865 asked; Sa-
vannah Bank and Trust Company, SO bid, 80
asked National Bank of Savannah, 100 bid,
III asked; Oglethorpe Savings and Trust Com
pany, 107 bid, los asked
Gas Stocks--Savannah Gas Light stock, ex-
dividend. 20 bid. 20i@ asked; Mutual Gas Light
Stock 20 bid, % asked.
BACoS.--Marnet firm and advancing; demand
good; smoked clear rib sides, 918c; shoulders,
TIC; dry salted clear rib sides, 80 long clear,
e1sc; bellies, SIC; shoulders. none; hams, 13c.
BAoGpG ANDs TIES Market steady. We
quote: Baggng-2M DIS, S0csL4c 2 lbs, 1ssCds
11sc ~ ns T957I4c, according to brand and
quantity Iron ties--Arow and other brands,
none; nominal 81 - per bundle, according TO
brand and quantity. Baggng and ties in retail
lots fraction higher.
BUTTER Market steady; choice Goshen, zoe;
git edge, 29Gb25c; creamery, 25@26c.
CAnnAGE--.;orthern. l3c.
CHEssE-Market steady; fair demand. We
quote, l1@iic.
CoFFEE-!The market is higher. We quote:
Fancy, &c; choice. aic: prime. 20lsc; good, 3Oc;
fair, 1870: ordinary, IS13c; common, lsc.
DRIED FRUIT-Apples, evaporated, llhcc;
peeled, TIC. Peaches, peeled, zoe; unpeeled,
541c. CuIrants, &c, Citron. 25c.
Dry GOODS The market Is firm; business fair.
We quote: Prints. iGl6c. Georgia brown sniit-
ing, o., 4l6c rs do. 5lac; "A brown sheeting'